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several little towns are passed lying below the track so that the view is made up of a small sea of brick-colored tiles cut by irregular streets along which wander broad hatted, serape-wrapped men & women with rebozos drawn tightly about them.

Viewed thus from above, the objects are dwarfed until the scene seems almost like a dream filled in with toy people & horses to which the little fields of stiff magueys all about add to the unreality. Early in the afternoon we ran into the city through an evil smelling street that gives a poor opinion of the sanitary regulations in force.


July 5th In City of Mexico

On the morning of the 6th I called upon the American Minister, Hon. Thos. Ryan, and explained my desire to obtain letters from Senor Romero, minister of the Treasury